TeachingYLs - your own experience of YLs

1. What scares you most about teaching kids?

2. Who was your favourite teacher when you were at primary school? Why?

3. What games did you play as a child with your friends and in the playground?

4. Did you ever hurt yourself when you were wee? What happened?

5. What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did as a child?

6. How did your parents punish you were you were a child and you did something wrong? What was your reaction to this?

7. How did your primary school teachers punish you when you did something wrong?

8. How much grammar did you study at school as a child?

9. Do you think you learn more easily now or when you were a child?

10. At what age did you learn to read and write? Was that before or after your peers? (be honest!!!)

11. Did you ever have language classes as a child? Would you have liked to?

12. What’s your earliest happy memory of being a child?

13. What was your favourite game as a child? Why?

14. Who was your least favourite teacher at school? Why?

15. What do you think the good aspects of teaching YLs might be?

16. What kind of things were you interested in as a teenager?

17. What kind of things were you interested in as a young child?

18. How important were your peers opinions to you when you were younger?